Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After sundown one day last week an airplane slipped in to a landing at "Round Hill," the South Dartmouth, Mass, estate of Hetty Green's stamp-collecting, air-minded son, Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green. It taxied up close to a capacious airship dock, and out of it stepped President Karl Taylor Compton and Vice President Vannevar Bush of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...dress rehearsal of the Harvard Dramatic Club's production of "Ever the Twain" by Lennox Robinson will be honored on Sunday afternoon, December 10, by the presence of two distinguished figures of the theatre. They are Miss Francesca Bruning, leading feminine star of the successful comedy, "One Sunday Afternoon", and Leo Bulgakov, director of that play. Mr. Bulgakov is also well known for his work at the Moscow Art Theatre. He and Miss Bruning will meet the cast and the director, Alistair Cooke, after the rehearsal, and then discuss with them various points about the acting. After this discussion, everyone...
...fifth anniversary, the Harvard Dramatic Club will present a half hour radio program over station WBZ on Saturday evening, December 9 from 9 to 9.30 o'clock. One half of the program will be composed of three selections from the Club's winter production, "Ever the Twain" by Lennox Robinson. Members of the regular cast will take their respective parts in these excerpts, which will be announced by Alistair Cooke, director of the show. For the remainder of the allotted time, George Simon and his Confederates, a well-known Harvard undergraduate orchestra, will offer dance music...
...retail price"; all that emerges is that for some occult reason the price of most articles is from two hundred to twenty-six hundred per cent higher in the stories than when they are landed in New York. An even more incredible hocus-pocus is put forth by Edward Robinson in a piece called "Musical Slaughter-House"; with remarkably little solid evidence to support him, he advances the thesis that the appeal made to the people last spring to support the Metropolitan Opera by monetary contributions was really a plot of the directors to retain their control and block...
...Congressman Edward M. Bassett of New York, internationally known zoning authority, will speak on "Limiting the Heights of Buildings Through Zoning" today at 11 o'clock in Robinson Hall...